GroupPermsLite
Unsatisfied with a number of other permissions management plugins publicly available, I sought to create a lighter and more elegant plugin to handle group-based permissions. With a focus to making all of the commands understandable at a glance and providing helpful details when queried. You should be able to get on with permissions management simply through typing /help GroupPermsLite and reading the command descriptions.
If you are unfamiliar with Bukkit permissions, please see the Wiki Article and the Forum FAQ
Features
- Simple and elegant
- Easy to use and understand
- Allows setting up an unlimited number of groups (names are case-insensitive)
- Has a default group called "all" that applies to all players that have joined the server, nomatter what other groups they are in
- Has a unique group for each player called "personal_[player name]" that allows individual permissions settings
- Saved in YAML format, advanced users can read and manage on disk and reload while the server is running using a command
- Simple and easy to use commands to add/remove players from groups and grant/revoke permissions from groups
- Allows use of the wildcard (*) to match any value for a node in a permission string when granting permissions using a command
- Allows adding negative permissions using the (-) operator to prevent a particular group from receiving the given permission from any other source
Ideas for future development
- /hasPermission ([player]) [permission node] - For manually checking permissions of a player and for use in command blocks (Available from 4.4 onwards)
- Tab auto-completion for registered permission nodes
- Support for Vault for better compatibility with plugins such as the LWC group feature
- A command to rename a player in order to support upcoming Mojang name changing feature
Commands
Command | Permission | Description |
---|---|---|
/GroupCreate [group] | group.admin | Creates a group without adding a player or permission |
/GroupAddPlayer [group] [player] | group.admin | Adds a player to the given group (creates the group if it doesn't already exist) |
/GroupRemovePlayer [group] [player] | group.admin | Removes a player from the given group |
/GroupGrantPerms [group] [(-)permission-string] | group.admin | Grants the given permission(s) to the specified group (creates the group if it doesn't already exist) |
/GroupRevokePerms [group] [permission-string] | group.admin | Revokes the given permission(s) from the specified group |
/GroupListPerms [group] ([page number]) | group.admin | Lists all of the permissions for a given group |
/GroupListPlayers [group] | group.admin | Lists all players in a given group |
/GroupList | group.admin | List all groups |
/GroupDelete [group] | group.admin | Deletes a given group |
/GroupReload | group.admin | Reloads config from disk |
/RegisterPerm [permission node] [default(op/not-op/true/false)] | group.admin | Manually register an unregistered permission node |
Most commands have a "silent" feature that is activated by placing a "-s" (without quotes) at the end. This is intended to be used with command blocks and command scripting plugins to allow you to manage your permissions through these without generating lots of console spam. You will still get a response if the command fails however.
Add-ons
- RankDisplayNames - Create ranks with chat prefixes that update automatically with permissions set through GroupPermsLite
Troubleshooting
It says the permission is not registered, what can I do?
Sometimes plugin developers will forget or simply not bother to register their permissions with Bukkit, but still use them in their code. Fortunately, the bukkit permissions.yml file can come to the rescue here. You should be able to find the permissions.yml file in the server directory. It is used by server owners to manually register additional permissions in bukkit. See http://wiki.bukkit.org/Permissions.yml
for details about editing the Permissions YAML. It is usually used to group permissions together so that they can all be assigned at once (this is compatible with GroupPermsLite!), however there is also nothing stopping you from registering all of the unregistered permissions for a plugin manually.
For example, here is how to register all of the permissions for Essentials (the most notorious for not registering their permissions): http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/7208/. You can cut and paste these into your permissions.yml if you use essentials. Be aware that permissions with square brackets [ ] around a permission node mean that you have to change that to the specific type you want in order for it to work.
Coming in v0.4: Added support for unregistered permissions - You will be able to grant unregistered permissions to a group with a prompt for confirmation
This plugin uses Java 7
If you get the followed error on starting up the server with this plugin installed "Unsupported major.minor version 51.0". This means you are using an out of date version of Java. If you don't know how to upgrade, please contact your server hosting provider and ask them for help in upgrading to Java 7, or contact Oracle customer support. Mac OS X users require JDK 7 instead of JRE 7.
Donations
If you'd like to contribute towards the continued development, support and maintenance of this project, please consider joining me on Patreon, and making a one-time or recurring pledge.
Help
If you need help you can leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as I can. You can also join my IRC chatroom using the following link. Please note, I am not always at my keyboard! http://webchat.esper.net/?channels=XHawk87&prompt=1
how do you add colour to the rank name is it just like the & thing or different?
@EpicN1nja11111
That sounds like you made errors when changing the config file, however until you send me a http://pastebin.com of the errors on the server.log, and the changes you made to the config file, I will not be able to help further. I need that information to find out what is wrong, if you don't send it to me then I cannot help.
@XHawk87
Thats also a problem, when ever i go into the config file and save changes that i make, the whole config resets. i loose all my ranks and permissions.
@EpicN1nja11111
You can deny permissions by granting a negative permission. E.g. /GroupGrantPerms all -bukkit.command.tell
This would prevent anyone from using the /tell command.
@EpicN1nja11111
I will look into it. Please send me a http://pastebin.com of the changes you made to the config file, as well as any errors on the server.log when reloading them or starting the server.
When ever i go and edit the perms/groupnames in the Config, it RESETS the whole config and it then has NOTHING in it... whats happening? help please?
can you add /groupdenyperms [group] [permission node]
Need this because i have a chat colour plugin, you give a group the permission node and it
will set the chat colour, i set the Default/Player/all chat colour as grey and now it makes
every groups chat grey, the only way to undo this is to deny perms to the groups, so i need to
be able to deny perms! thanks :D
@Predatorz01
/GroupGrantPerms [group] [(-)permission-string]
This grants a permission or set of matching permissions (if * is used) to a group. It can also grant negative permissions (taking the permission away if they have it anywhere else), if the (-) operator is used. If the group doesn't exist, it shows a prompt to create a new one or cancel.
For adding ranks to names based on permission group, you can use the RankDisplayNames add-on. There is a tutorial on how to do this: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/rankdisplaynames/pages/tutorial/
i'm having problems setting permissions to groups and adding a display name to players.
how do i fix this?
@wimpycow
If you are using a command scripting plugin like: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/createyourownmenus/
You can do:
/GroupRemovePlayer [player] [group]
followed by:
/GroupAddPlayer [player] [group]
Or if you are using a scripting plugin like: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/skript/
You can create a command /acceptrules and have it run those command. I am not an expert on Skript though, so you'd have to follow their documentation.
Or you can request a plugin that can do that here: https://forums.bukkit.org/forums/plugin-requests.13/
Is there a way to use an external command to "promote a player"? I mean let's say we have a Newbie rank, and a Member rank, and I want the newbies to read the rules first and then type a command (say, /acceptrules) to remove themselves from the Newbie group and put them in the Member group. Is there a way to do make an external command do that?
OKay thanks
@diamondpumpkin6437
You're not supposed to include the brackets. Brackets in command syntax mean that this is optional. Either you can type /GroupGrantPerms Admin -someplugins.fly or you can type /GroupGrantPerms Admin someplugins.fly.
If you add a negative permission, it will mean anyone in that group will never be able to get that permission even if its granted to them elsewhere.
You put these words: /GroupGrantPerms [group] [(-)permission-string] and in there is (-) I tried to put the command /groupgrantperms Admin (-)someplugins.fly I didn't really do someplugin
@diamondpumpkin6437
Sorry, I have no idea what you mean by that.
Now you don't explain the /groupgrantperms very well you say (-) it's not working I'll post again if I got it working
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i dont know what link perms are
@XHawk87
Thanks, I understand now somethings about Vault.
@Thesneling
Vault is a permissions, chat and economy API (library) for plugin developers to use to make plugins with. It is not required to have Vault to use GroupPermsLite, it does not make use of it, however it does not conflict with it either. You can use both if you want to.
@XHawk87
Just, what does Vault (i don't really understand) and do this plugin is compatible with?
Thanks